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   Riveting and Sheet Metal Shop

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: May 2, 1940
Agency: NYA
Credits: Rondal Partridge (Photographer)
Source: NARA (SPB)
Accession Number: 119-CAL-17-127

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The busiest and most important shop of any aircraft school is aircraft riveting and sheet metal. Aircraft factories cannot get enough trained riveters. Photo taken in Aero Industries Technical Institute--a school sponsored by three of the largest aircraft manufacturers, Lockheed, Northrop, and Consolidated.